Robust Resource Allocation in Future Wireless Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Saeedeh Parsaeefard, Ahmad Reza Sharafat, Nader Mokari

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3. Robust Cooperative Resource Allocation

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   Pages 33-79

4. Robust Noncooperative Resource Allocation

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   Pages 81-144

5. Nonconvex Robust Problems

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   Pages 145-231

6. Conclusions and Future Research

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7. Back Matter

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This book presents state-of-the-art research on robust resource allocation in current and future wireless networks. The authors describe the nominal resource allocation problems in wireless networks and explain why introducing robustness in such networks is desirable. Then, depending on the objectives of the problem, namely maximizing the social utility or the per-user utility, cooperative or competitive approaches are explained and their corresponding robust problems are considered in detail. For each approach, the costs and benefits of robust schemes are discussed and the algorithms for reducing their costs and improving their benefits are presented. Considering the fact that such problems are inherently non-convex and intractable, a taxonomy of different relaxation techniques is presented, and applications of such techniques are shown via several examples throughout the book. Finally, the authors argue that resource allocation continues to be an important issue in future wireless networks, and propose specific problems for future research.

• Cognitive radio networks
• Distributed resource allocation
• Ergodic resource allocation
• Heterogonous wireless networks
• Homogenous wireless networks
• Next-generation wireless
• Robust optimization theory
• Wireless networks
• Worst-case robust optimization

• Department of Communication Technologies, Research Institute for Communications and Information Technology, Tehran, Iran

  Saeedeh Parsaeefard

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

  Ahmad Reza Sharafat, Nader Mokari

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